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November 14, 2007
Dear Ms. Lutz,
This is to inform you that I am in receipt of your letter dated October 30, 2007 which was written in response to a request I made for copies of all 2002, 2003 and 2006 Annual Rabies Activity Reports submitted to the California Department of Health Services ("CDHS") by the Inland Valley Humane Society ("IVHS").
Upon initial review of your response made on behalf of IVHS, you reveal an undocumented fact about how IVHS has been recording the disposition of animals (cats and dogs) entering the shelter. This fact was not apparent while compiling data from the various California shelters used in shelter comparisons published on the sheltertrak.com website; nor was this fact known anytime prior to receiving your letter.
Given this understanding of how IVHS records the disposition of animals, it is agreed that shelter comparisons made on sheltetrak.com fail to produce an accurate overall picture when the IVHS numbers are included. In order to maintain the quality and accuracy of information presented on sheltertrak.com, IVHS has been removed from shelter comparisons being made on sheltertrak.com effective Saturday, November 10, 2007.
The assertions, questions and reasons stated in your letter supporting the advice you have given your client (IVHS) to not comply with my request for documents that IVHS has submitted to the California Department of Health Services, which contain information recorded with and is currently available to the general public from the State of California, suggests you have not reviewed the sheltertrak.com website entirely and have narrowly focused your attention on content related only to IVHS. I will, to the best of my ability and as quickly as possible, respond in detail to the “numerous” reasons you give for advising IVHS to deny my request for information.
Sincerely,
Bradley J. Jensen
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